CARLISLE Joseph V. Thompson Jr., 77, of 536 Highland Ave., a former business manager, co-owner and publisher of The Evening Sentinel, died yesterday in Hershey Medical Center.
He became publisher of the paper after its sale to Howard Publications in 1968 and served in that capacity until 1974. Also, he was retired from the state Department of Public Welfare.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II; a former treasurer and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church; past president of the Greater Carlisle Area United Way, the Carlisle Kiwanis Club and the Carlisle Band Boosters; a former director of the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce; a former treasurer of the alumni association of Dickinson College's Kappa Sigma fraternity; and a former trustee of the Carlisle YMCA and Bosler Free Library.
He was a volunteer and docent for the Cumberland County Historical Society and a member of the Carlisle Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, the Central Cumberland County Advisory Board of the former CCNB Bank, and the Old Towne Run Mountain Lodge.
